Blue Origin Launches Tenth New Shepard Suborbital Human Spaceflight
25 Feb 2025
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SPACENEWS: Blue Origin conducted the tenth crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Feb. 25, carrying six people, one of whom remained at least semi-anonymous.
The New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 10:49 a.m. Eastern after a 19-minute hold in the countdown due to an unspecified technical issue. The vehicle’s crew capsule reached a peak altitude of 107 kilometers above sea level before making a safe landing 10 minutes and 8 seconds after liftoff. The booster made a powered landing about two and a half minutes earlier.
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